One minute youâ€™re fine, the next minute everything is spinning. It happened recently to a coworker who woke up one morning and found that any little movement sent the room spinning and her stomach lurching. She couldnâ€™t even get out of bed. Her doctor told her she had benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) â€” a type of dizziness common among older adults, and for which there is an amazingly easy fix. BPPV was also the subject of a recent New …

Thanks to drug manufacturer price hikes, the average cost for a year’s supply of a prescription drug has jumped to more than $11,000, or about 75 percent of the average annual Social Security retirement benefit and half the median income of someone on Medicare. This latest bad news for older patients’ pocketbooks come from a new AARP Public Policy Institute report, which shows retail prices for widely used medications increased at six times the rate of general inflation in 2013. …

En espaĂ±ol | A $72 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson for failing to warn consumers of a potential cancer risk from talc in baby and bath powder has raised questions about the safety of using these items, especially for feminine hygiene. Jurors in St. Louis awarded the money to the family of a woman who said her fatal ovarian cancer was due to using the companyâ€™s talc-based Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower powder for decades. Enter toÂ win a Volvo …

The severe birth defects in babies born to women suspected of having the Zika virus have received most of the attention about this disease in the news, but the virus also poses a risk to older adults. Researchers have been studying a link between the mosquito-borne virus and developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, a post-infection complication that can lead to temporary paralysis in adults.Â The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed that linkÂ based on two U.S. cases of Guillain-Barre …